I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.

My life's goal is to find a happy medium for sampling to be not only legal but for the right parties to benefit from it. There have to be sampling laws. The survival of hiphop is based on that.

All we sell is the Greatest feeling on Earth

Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive.

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations. Every record I put on was like a baptism.